Report on Summer School 2024 at Fermilab

Computational HEP 2024 summer school participants and instructors. Photo credit: Tulika Bose, Univ. Wisconsin.

The DOE Computational HEP training programs combined again for the 2024 summer school, this year at Fermilab. The sessions held May 20-24 introduced hands-on systems administration workshops, high-performance computing lectures, and career panel discussions.

This training event was supported by the four Department of Energy programs TAC-HEP, WATCHEP, C2-THE-P2, and LGT4HEP.

The first and second training cohorts worked together on a hands-on exercise of setting up an HTCondor cluster. Photo credit: Jason Nielsen, UC Santa Cruz.

There were three major changes with respect to last year’s program:

1. The program was held at Fermilab, giving access to the DOE national laboratory system.
2. The program included two cohorts of students, as the second 2-year cohort of each program joined the first cohort.
3. The program included more hands-only exercises, focused on cluster administration, high-performance computing, and containerization.

A career panel composed of DOE program manager, DOE lab senior leadership, and university faculty introduced students to the breadth of opportunities for computational high-energy physicists in academia and the DOE.

DOE program manager Dr. Jeremy Love joined a career panel discussion with national laboratory senior management and university faculty. Photo credit: Jason Nielsen, UC Santa Cruz.

The summer school was very successful in helping to build community within the cohorts. Student trainees had a chance to exchange news about their research projects and their experience in high-energy physics.

The detailed agenda and timetable for the summer school are online.